I’m thrilled to naturally be at Percona
Live Europe Amsterdam from Oct 3-5 2016. I have previously
talked about some of my sessions but I think there’s another one on
the schedule already.

LinuxCon Europe – Oct 4-6 2016. I won’t be
there for the whole conference, but hope to make the most of my
day on Oct 6th.

MariaDB Developer’s meeting – Oct 6-8 2016 –
skipping the first day, but will be there all day 2 and 3. I
even have a session on day 3, focused on compatibility with
MySQL, a topic I deeply care about ( …

On March 21st I will be in Paris, to attend the OTN MySQL Developers Day. Oracle is organizing
these events all over the world, and although the majority are in
the US, some of them are touching the good old European
continent. Previous events were an all-Oracle show. Recently, the
MySQL Community team has been asking for cooperation from the
community, and in such capacity I am also presenting at the
event, on the topic of testing early releases of MySQL in a
sandbox. Of course, this is one of my favorite topics, but it is
quite appropriate in this period, when Oracle has released a
whole lot of preview features in its MySQL Labs. Which is
another favorite topic of mine, since I was the one who insisted
for having the Labs when I was working in the …

It's that time of the year where MySQL would be speakers are
called to action. As usual, the main event is the MySQL spring
conference, this year hosted by Percona. The call for participation to the
MySQL Conference And Expo 2012 is still open until
December 5th. To submit a proposal, you should register as a
speaker and then fill in the form.
There is a conference committee which is already busy
evaluating the proposals that have been submitted so far. The
committee is demanding (I know for a fact, since I am in it!) and
therefore, if you want to submit something, be very critical with
yourself and polish your …

For those in the US the annual MySQL UC is
taking place again in April. For those in Europe we have
dedicated room for MySQL and MySQL related
products/variants/branches at FOSDEM 2010 being held in Brussels, Belgium on 6-7
Feb.

UPDATE: The final vote is in and a winner has been declared, with
Matt Asay and his arguments for the GPL taking the prize. You can
see the debate or follow links to the other judges’ votes and
thoughts here.

This is my assessment as a judge of the recent open source
license debate held by the FOSS Learning Centre. We’ll have
to begin with some qualifications and definitions, starting with
the fact that there is no ‘best’ open source software license.
Still, a star-studded open source software panel provided a
lively, informative debate on the merits of some top open source
licenses. For that, I congratulate and thank the panelists, Mike
Milinkovich from the Eclipse Foundation arguing for the Eclipse
Public License, Matt Asay of Alfresco arguing in favor of the GPL
and David Maxwell from Coverity arguing for …

When open source goes bad. Is open source a success or failure?
And more.

Follow 451 CAOS Links live @caostheory on Twitter and
Identi.ca“Tracking the open source news wires, so you don’t have
to.”
When open source goes bad
The H reported
on the apparent turmoil at the CentOS project, while Jay Lyman
offered the CAOS perspective. Meanwhile
Slashdot reported that Alan Cox has quit as Linux TTY
subsystem maintainer.

Today at the Venture Capital Forum in
Hilton Arc de Triomphe, Paris, I received the EVCA “Hall of Fame”
Award on behalf of MySQL AB. What a timing, to meet with
investment bankers and venture capitalists now!

In these times of a deep finance crisis, of no credit handed out
by banks and of general doom and gloom, it felt great to be
somewhat of an “everybody’s darling”. In the VC community, MySQL
is seen as a great success — and in particular, we’re seen by
European VCs as a European success story (despite over 50 % of
our personnel and most of our Management Team being US-based, at
the point of time when the VCs exited).

Side note: I don’t mind MySQL being seen as a European success
story. We’re used to portraying ourselves as belonging to
whatever geography is relevant for the moment. That …

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